Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 2 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 3 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 4 | THE man who sold us the Barbie doll may soon be promoting the scandal-rocked Royal Family . |
| 5 | This , which may also be called the socio-biological or ‘ geneticist ’ thesis , asserts that innate biological factors determine a person 's morality . |
| 6 | The United States may also be approaching the same conclusion , for between 1980 and 1988 it moved from being the world 's largest creditor to being its largest debtor . |
| 7 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |
| 8 | This is very clear in the swashbuckling tale given that very title , compounded by Conrad and his close friend Ford Madox Hueffer ( afterwards Ford Madox Ford ) in what may surely be called the Golden Age of the classic adventure story . |
| 9 | As Hood Phillips states , " It may indeed be called the one fundamental law of the British Constitution . " |
| 10 | For example , if music was being played in the background at the time the shots were being taken , the breaks at each shot change will be very noticeable and the remedy may then be to replace the original sound with a continuous background . |